Mef2d Acts Upstream of Muscle Identity Genes and Couples Lateral Myogenesis to Dermomyotome Formation in Xenopus laevis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Della Gaspera, Bruno ^a   Armand, Anne Sophie ^a   Lecolle, Sylvie ^a   Charbonnier, Frédéric ^a   Chanoine, Christophe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMOMYOTOME; EMBRYO; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; LATERAL MYOGENESIS; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MEF2C GENE; MEF2D GENE; MEOX2 GENE; MESODERM; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOD GENE; MYOTOME; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PARAXIS GENE; PAX3 GENE; SOMITE; TENDON; TRANSACTIVATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOD PROTEIN; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTORS; NEURULATION; SOMITES; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84871807906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052359     Document Type: Article

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